Our IFPB joined a demonstration in Ramallah, which involved 300 to 400 people marching from the city center to the Turkish embassy chanting “Where are the human rights?” and “Thank you Turkey” in Arabic. When we were heading on to our next meeting at the end of the protest, another delegate who speaks Hebrew and I noticed a Channel 2 news agent from the Israeli popular news station. We walked up to see what he was saying and we noticed that his camera man was struggling with the angle at which to shoot him so as not to get any Palestinian flags or remaining protest signs. The news reporter then taped a short statement of no more than 60 seconds in which he stated that life was going as normal in Ramallah and that we people were apathetically going about their daily routine, not caring about what had happened off the coast of Gaza. This was, of course, a blatant lie, but Israelis who consider Channel 2 a reliable news source will never know that.
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